Lynn Guest
Legacy of Greyladies
1915. Greyladies, in Wiltshire, is a manor house, half of which the government has requisitioned to house German refugees while…
The Lion of Mistra
By the early 15th century, Constantinople and Mistra in the Morea are the last relics of a Byzantine Empire now…
A Murder Country
The setting is the Appalachian country, thickly wooded and lightly settled, some time after the Civil War. The Rider believes…
Only a Promise
Ralph Lockwood, Earl of Berwick, encouraged his three schoolfellows to join him in fighting Napoleon’s army in the Peninsula. When…
The Infidel Stain
Editors' choice
1841: Captain William Avery and Blake have separately returned to England after their Indian adventures, which were related in The…
The Trade Secret
Nat Bramble is a young servant who has learned Persian in order to interpret for his master, Sir Anthony Sherley,…
Enter Pale Death
In Suffolk, 1933, the wife of a promising politician is trampled to death by a vicious stallion. Although this has…
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed
The McGhees, a black family freed from slavery, flee the Jim Crow laws and poverty of post-Civil War Alabama for…
The Gage Street Courtesan
Under a layer of Victorian respectability, colonial Hong Kong was a seething hodgepodge of failed revolutionaries, crooks, opium dealers, Jewish…
The Highwayman’s Daughter
1768. Jack Blythe, heir to an earldom, and his wastrel cousin, Rupert, are returning from London when their carriage is…
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